Pendgast Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Pendgast Surname Definition:
Seems to be a compound of pend- (seen in the name of the famous 7th-cent. Mercian King Penda), and Teutonic gast (Old Saxon, O.H.Ger., O.Dut. gast = Goth, gast-s = Old English gest, gi(e)st = Old Norse gest-r), guest, stranger. (In purely A.
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| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
Pendgast Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Seems to be a compound of pend- (seen in the name of the famous 7th-cent. Mercian King Penda), and Teutonic gast (Old Saxon, O.H.Ger., O.Dut. gast = Goth, gast-s = Old English gest, gi(e)st = Old Norse gest-r), guest, stranger. (In purely A.- Saxon names the form of the second element was usually -gist, as in the case of the Friþegist mentioned in the Chronicle, A D. 993).
If Pend- is Teutonic it must be the same word as Old Frisian pend, pand = East Frisian pand = M.L.Ger. and Dutch pand = Old Norse pant-r (m.) = Ger. pfand, a pledge (Old Frisian penda = Ger. pfänden); but there are reasonable grounds for assuming that the stem is Celtic (cp. Chad), viz. the O.Cymric pend (Welsh pen, Cornish pe(d)n) = Old Irish cend (Irish and Gaelic ceann), head, chief.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pendagast | 94 | 64 | / |
| Pendegast | 94 | 15 | / |
| Pendygast | 94 | 0 | / |
| Pendugast | 94 | 0 | / |
| Pendigast | 94 | 0 | / |
| Pendast | 93 | 0 | / |
| Pendeegast | 89 | 1 | / |
| Pondigast | 82 | 0 | / |
| Pandegast | 82 | 0 | / |
| Pentagast | 82 | 0 | / |
| Pendycast | 82 | 0 | / |
| Pendegust | 82 | 0 | / |
| Pentaghast | 78 | 0 | / |
| Penndecast | 78 | 0 | / |
| Pentacost | 71 | 27 | / |
| Pentga | 71 | 5 | / |
| Pandakast | 71 | 3 | / |
| Pendecost | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pentecast | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pande Agasti | 70 | 1 | / |
| Panda Agasti | 70 | 1 | / |
| Pena da Costa | 67 | 9 | / |
| Pentacosta | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pentacoast | 67 | 0 | / |
| Pentecoast | 67 | 0 | / |
| Pendingo | 63 | 4 | / |
| Pindinga | 63 | 1 | / |
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